You Are My Sunshine

Here are my little yellow rays of sunshine before church this morning :)

Tomorrow we hit the full time swing of things for the school year. C stays at school for an hour longer, I have 2 separate parent meetings, AP has speech and swim lessons, and C has baseball!! I just might live to blog about it, that is if my head doesn't hit the pillow first!

Small Town Saturday Night

Tonight we went to a benefit for a little girl in our town who is fighting stage 4 cancer. It felt like a true smalltown affair, but was very fun! My uncle's brother is related to the little girl and he helped smoke the bbq all day long to serve tonight.

They had little games going on for the kiddos. At one point AP jumped in and tried to learn the cha cha slide! C's favorite part was looking at all of the cool cars that were a part of the antique car show!

Say What You Need To Say

Yesterday was AP's first speech therapy session of the school year. AP was not very enthused about going to speech today, as illustrated in this picture of her outside the school.

But, when I went back to the class to pick her up, she was all smiles!

Her teacher/therapist said that she was more "compliant" than she had been in May! She also said that she can make many more sounds than she could just a few months ago. She was pleased with her progress. AP was very excited to have her own little take home folder with homework. Now mommy is off to monogram a backpack to put the folder in :)

Holiday Ro-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ad

That song from the Chevy Chase vacation movie kept going through my head as we were driving to Holiday World on Sunday. I kept singing it in the car and driving Hubs crazy I'm sure :) The drive from our house to Santa Claus, Indiana was not bad at all, maybe 2 and a half hours.

Here are the kiddos giving Santa some love. AP was quick to point out that this was not the "real" one.

C and I are on these swings. Can you find us?? I think this was C's favorite ride. He said that he likes the ones that make his stomach tickle :)

AP and I did every single kiddie ride while C and daddy were in line and riding the "big" roller coaster, The Raven. C said "that was fun, but I don't ever want to do it again, ok?"

C and I rode the Liberty Launch, another ride that C does not want to ride again :) I, on the other hand, love rides like that. Bring on the heights!

The kiddos are anxiously awaiting the "real" Santa to make his appearance. Santa read them a story and they sang a few songs. AP kept interrupting the story and yelling out "I want a baby mermaid!"

We don't know this little girl, but she was a cutie and she wanted to share Santa's lap with AP. C made sure to tell Santa that he wanted a "real surfboard" for Christmas. Um, ok, do the elves make those?That's C and Daddy in the front. All four of us rode this ride the first time, but AP was not a fan and the boys wanted to do it again.

Day 2. Weary parents. On a kiddie train.

It was a great little vacation. I highly recommend this park and the water park to any families who live nearby. It is family owned and operated since some time in the 30's. They are apparently a family of faith as there was praise and worship music playing throughout the park. Hubs and I both commented about all the employees being so happy and looking like they really enjoyed working there. And the lady that you see on all the commercials pumping you up about the free Pepsi and sunscreen, she's there to greet you in the parking lot! I already miss the endless flow of free Diet Dr. Pepper....

First Things First

Today is the second stay-by-yourself kindergarten day! AND the first day that we participated in the drop-off line for car riders. I ended up breaking the cardinal rule and GOT OUT OF MY CAR in the drop off line. I completely forgot that the child lock was on in C's door. So I had to hop out and run around and hold up the line :) I really hope that C made it where he was supposed to this morning. He was very confident that he could do it by himself. However, as I glanced back while driving away I saw him sort of freeze before walking in. I know that there are lots of people to lovingly help him get to the right place, right?????

And secondly, we spent the last 2 and a half days at Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana. We had a great time and I have pictures to share soon...